Former CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General Dr Edward Greene on Wednesday told a conference of leaders from eight Caribbean universities that drug abuse should be considered a human rights issue and a ‘human rights approach’ should be adopted to address the problem.
“Our response could be more effective if we integrate human rights principles and obligations into prevention and treatment of drug offenders,” Greene said, in the keynote address at Le Meridien Pegasus in Kingston, Jamaica, where he outlined several challenges in fighting drug abuse. He stressed the need to be creative in designing,
